Commissioned

When you have a request, I’ll take that as a demand.
I’m no genie, but I think there’s one that lives in my backpack.

The Wise Wall Project is an initiative of Project FUEL and FUEL Foundation to document the rural wisdom of our villages and celebrate it through art murals.

The Wise Wall Project transforms villages into living classrooms, turning the walls of the same onto blackboards and canvases that uncover striking yet simple life learnings. These lessons are further designed and presented to the world through various mediums on our platform. The project aims to ignite a movement of transforming the long forgotten villages into open-air galleries, exhibiting human wisdom for anyone and everyone in the world to see and benefit from. We believe that knowledge is the most valuable currency there is, of stories-waiting to be told and waiting to unfold!

From tapping into the practical learning of the villagers laced with age-old philosophies, to developing empathy that encourages us to adapt the right attitude and take corrective actions to support our ancestral villages.

Integrated Livelihood Support Project (ILSP), is a joint initiative of Government of Uttarakhand and International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAD) and being implemented in Uttarakhand in 44 blocks of 11 hill districts under the Rural Development department. ILSP is working to reduce poverty by enabling rural households to take up sustainable livelihood opportunities integrated with the wider economy.

The photostories are a celebration of the initiative and its beneficiaries. Capturing the different implemented projects of ILSP in the district of Tehri and Dehradun in Uttarakhand, the photos bring forward the wisdom and anecdotes from the lives of the villagers.

"TORNADOES", the popular Army Service Corps (ASC) Motorcycle Display Team

GuProject Fuel - Masterpiece Tour - Europe

In the third edition of Project FUEL’s Masterpiece Tour, we traveled to Sweden, Netherlands, Germany, France and Hungary to collect life lessons of people affected by recent migrant crisis - both refugees, and citizens of the countries that have provided asylum to them.

The 90-day-tour was filled with the best possible human experiences and stories. The program focused on the creation of a knowledge base to bring twofold benefits. First, to have people relate to someone outside of their community by tapping into their empathic selves and second, in drawing out human-interest stories from lives that had increasingly become just a statistic of the conflict.

We studied integration to create enabling communities. Through a daily social media reach and on-ground activities, we humanised refugee stories through their life lessons. From 11-year olds writing letters to refugees to discussions with local authorities about effective tools of integration, we came closer to our vision of creating a more sustainable world.

At the end of the tour, we were honoured to be invited to speak at the United Nations headquarters in New York. We are currently in the process of creating a documentary, a photo-essay book and a curriculum based on the content collected from this Masterpiece Tour.